conceptcon‧cept /ˈkɒnsept $ ˈkɑːn-/ ●●○ W2 AWL noun [countable] 
the concept of total patient care the concept of infinite spaceconcept that the concept that we are citizens of one world a new concept in business travel our basic concepts of decent human behaviour It’s very simple, once you grasp the concept.► see thesaurus at ideaCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesa new concept· Part of a teacher’s job is to introduce new concepts to students.a basic/fundamental concept· The children are taught the basic concepts of mathematics.a key/central/important concept· The title tells you something about the central concept of the poem.a difficult concept· Difficult concepts can sometimes be explained by diagrams or graphs.a simple concept· Cause and effect is a fairly simple concept.the whole concept of something· Some people reject the whole concept of evolution.a general/broad concept· The book begins with some general historical concepts.an abstract concept (=based on general ideas rather than on something that exists)· He finds it hard to grasp abstract concepts.a theoretical concept (=that exists only as a theory)· The theoretical concepts of psychology, for example Freud’s ideas, are also useful in the study of literature.a legal/mathematical/marketing etc concept· Democracy is a very important political concept.an alien concept (=an idea that is very strange or that does not exist)· In many countries, queuing for a bus is an alien concept.an ambiguous/vague concept (=one that is not clear or is hard to define)· Creativity is an ambiguous concept.verbshave a concept of something· Animals have no concept of their own mortality.understand a concept· The class will help you understand the basic concepts of physics.grasp a concept (=understand it)· Children often grasp new concepts more quickly than adults.introduce a concept· The first year of the course introduces the basic concepts of management.develop a concept· The Greeks developed the concept of a scientific theory.
WORD ORIGINconcept
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin conceptum, from the past participle of concipere; ➔ CONCEIVEEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- She thinks that marriage is an old-fashioned concept.
- The idea of a soul is a religious concept.
- What's your concept of an ideal society?
- Clearly, though, the best way to improve your presentation skills is through practice and constructive criticism, hardly new concepts.
- However, given finite resources, concepts of effectiveness and efficiency must be considered alongside concepts of need.
- The modular concept of custom-fitting a work space has taken on residential refinements.
- The Read codes adopt a particular approach to the representation of medical concepts.
- There is a continuing discussion as to what a concept really is.
- They are then arranged in a concept/keyword map that combines the syllabus concepts and the relevant subject content of indexed resources.
- To understand the nature of this challenge, we must first come to terms with the concept of a physical field.
THESAURUS
something that you think of, especially something that you could do or suggest: · I think that’s an excellent idea.· Let me know if you have any good ideas.
something that comes into your mind: · The thought had entered my mind that he might be lying.· It was a worrying thought.· She was lost in her thoughts.
the idea that you have in your mind about what someone or something is like: · What was your impression of him?
a good and original idea, which makes you think of doing or creating something: · Where did you get your inspiration from for the book?· He suddenly had a flash of inspiration.· The design for the house was entirely the inspiration of the architect.
British English, brainstorm American English a sudden new and clever idea, especially one that solves a problem: · I thought I’d have to sell the house, but then I had a brainwave.
an idea of how something is, or how something should be done: · Concepts of beauty are different in different cultures.· the traditional concept of marriage
an idea about life or society, especially one that is a little silly or old-fashioned: · There is no evidence to support the notion that poverty is caused by laziness.
Longman Language Activatoran idea or set of ideas that explains something an idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain something, especially in science: · This theory helps to explain how animals communicate with each other.theory that: · It's my theory that the murderer knew his victim quite well.· There's a theory that Kennedy was killed by the CIA.theory about: · There have been a lot of theories about the meaning of dreams.somebody's theory of something: · Darwin's Theory of Evolution· Einstein's theory of relativityeconomic/political etc theory: · Atkin taught political theory at Hunter College.
plural hypotheses formal an idea that is based on very few facts and that you cannot be sure is right: · Various hypotheses are possible regarding the nature and structure of the world.· The results of our experiment confirmed this hypothesis.
a statement or idea that you accept as being true and use as a base for developing other ideas: · American justice works on the premise that an accused person is innocent until they are proved guilty.· I believe his whole argument is based on a false premise.
a way of explaining something about life, society, etc: · Ideas and customs used to be passed on intact down the generations.· Do you agree generally with Marx's ideas?idea about: · medieval ideas about the origins of the universeidea that: · How old is the idea that there is life after death?idea of: · Ideas of how society should function have changed dramatically in the last 200 years.
a way of explaining something about life, society, etc, that people often think is a little stupid or old-fashioned: · Many widely-held notions about crime have come from the cinema, magazines, or novels.notion of: · Modern society does not always correspond to classical notions of democracy.a vague/absurd/fanciful etc notion: · Humans still hold on to the absurd notion that we are the only intelligent beings in the Universe.
someone's idea of how something is done, or how it should be done: · She thinks that marriage is an old-fashioned concept.concept of: · What's your concept of an ideal society?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives the ability to translate abstract ideas into words
· Part of a teacher’s job is to introduce new concepts to students.
· The children are taught the basic concepts of mathematics.
· The title tells you something about the central concept of the poem.
· Difficult concepts can sometimes be explained by diagrams or graphs.
· Cause and effect is a fairly simple concept.
· Some people reject the whole concept of evolution.
· The book begins with some general historical concepts.
(=based on general ideas rather than on something that exists)· He finds it hard to grasp abstract concepts.
(=that exists only as a theory)· The theoretical concepts of psychology, for example Freud’s ideas, are also useful in the study of literature.
· Democracy is a very important political concept.
(=an idea that is very strange or that does not exist)· In many countries, queuing for a bus is an alien concept.
(=one that is not clear or is hard to define)· Creativity is an ambiguous concept.
verbs· Animals have no concept of their own mortality.
· The class will help you understand the basic concepts of physics.
(=understand it)· Children often grasp new concepts more quickly than adults.
· The first year of the course introduces the basic concepts of management.
· The Greeks developed the concept of a scientific theory.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the ability to translate abstract ideas into words· He was unfamiliar with the most basic concepts of chemistry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· As we shall see, there are problems inherent in trying to give shape to such an abstract concept as political culture.· Ultimately, a central objective of political theorizing is to replace proper names with abstract concepts.· The regime is abstract in concept, political in intent and largely insensitive to practical consequences in a highly practical industry.· As she gets older; she may have difficulty comprehending abstract concepts that are communicated through what she hears.· We frequently telephone asking him to illustrate some obscure or abstract concept.· All abstract, intellectual concepts that children will master at later ages are based on concepts they learn in their early relationships.· Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions.· Words are only essential to put across more abstract concepts and intellectual ideas.
· Reichian therapy, acupuncture and many other healing techniques have as their basic principle the concept of energy flows in the body.· People experience modernity without understanding its foundations, its basic concepts.· But most religious thinkers accommodated themselves fairly rapidly to the basic concept of evolution.· They are scrambling definitions of basic concepts like quality, time, and values.· But the basic concept can also be applied to the establishment of networks within large organizations.· Moreover, the basic mythological concepts animating these two bodies of legend were not very different, either.· Scamp a sketch of a design showing the basic concept.· Accountants may not realize how much confusion there is amongst non-financial colleagues about basic accounting concepts.
· The effect of such an argument is however to view proportionality as a more general concept of fairness.· We learn bow to learn, how to find out, what the general concepts are.· A general concept of procedural fairness could therefore lead the courts into using and developing procedural forms other than classical adjudication.· A general concept can be exemplified by any number of particular instances which need not stand in any causal relation with each other.· Section I presents the general concepts used by him.· Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts, and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women.· The general concept of work is also shifting from man-machine interaction to man-man interaction with machines as aids. 10.· Such a general concept was to be provided by Althusser's theory of relative autonomy within a structure in dominance.
· Excellence One of today's key management concepts is excellence.· The strata identified in the class approach are called classes, the second key concept.· Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty.· You indicate in detail how key concepts are identified and measured in actual research settings.· It is a stylised drama with understated dialogue that depends on recognition of key words and concepts.· A key concept in understanding such major shifts, and relating them to wider economic change, is uneven development.· For Lind, similarity is a key concept.· It allows us to record the principal ideas, key concepts, competing explanatory theories and illustrations used. 5.
· Over eight million people came to admire this new concept of an environment where everything was intended to lift the spirits.· Middleware Services Middleware is a relatively new concept that emerged only recently.· They aim to give staff confidence before they have to deal with real customers, particularly with new concepts and ideas.· The Spice of Life Human biological diversity is hardly a new concept.· The provision of secondments to business and education is not a new concept.· Hand in hand with the belt-tightening must come a new concept of government management.· Cloud One has introduced a new concept in unit dose packaging.· Clearly, though, the best way to improve your presentation skills is through practice and constructive criticism, hardly new concepts.
· Put in a nutshell, it puts the whole concept of justice into jeopardy.· And without steady caddie work, the whole concept of the trip was endangered.· The whole concept depends upon the volume of water being sufficient.· The whole concept, by the way, is indigenous to baseball.· People have a whole concept of the tribe, of the other, of being together.· With a simple statement we have done away with the whole concept of deafness itself.· The whole concept of wealth made her distinctly uneasy.
NOUN· It is considered that the self concept and the values a manager holds are of central importance in understanding motivation.
VERB· The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.· ARPA-supported researchers applied this packet concept to their network-building projects.· Accounting bases are methods of applying fundamental concepts to deal with the increasing variety of business transactions.· The Motorola people talk all that jargon and apply the latest concepts along with the best of them.· First are theoretical approaches which depend upon some empirical knowledge to apply theoretical concepts such as the continuity equation.· Post-war Britain offers a suitable period in which to apply the concept of the social construction of old age.· This applies even to the concept of authorial style.
· There is no doubt that the old rating system was based on the nebulous concept of a fair market rent.· The rules are kind of based on a factory-stock concept.· From this point of view the allocation of function and interface design are one core design activity based on the man-machine concept.· All abstract, intellectual concepts that children will master at later ages are based on concepts they learn in their early relationships.· Beveridge provided a rationale based on concepts of national efficiency, rationality and the rights of citizenship.· The Royal Commission recommended a two-tier structure based on the concept of the enlarged city region.· It introduced a single and unified code of child care law based upon a new concept of parental responsibility.· Both the standard basis and the indemnity basis of taxation under rule 12 are based on concepts of reasonableness or unreasonableness.
· He developed the concept of an open market within the Community to create the largest single market in the Western world.· In the developing concepts of a machine aesthetic, these artists fully understood its relevance.· In fact different groups of people see the world in different ways and develop words for their concepts.· As people continue to have new experiences, they continue to develop new schemata and concepts.· But judges seldom reach for a dictionary when seeking to develop a new legal concept.· Children begin to construct knowledge about rules and justice, although typically they have not yet developed fully a concept of intentionality.· Some programs are subject specific i.e. concentrate on developing skills and concepts in one subject area such as geography.
· The Opposition have totally failed to grasp the banding concept.· Though I have no trouble grasping its concepts, math continues to be difficult for me.· Other nations, notably the United States, grasped this concept years ago.· There are those deep into their careers who still fail to grasp this concept.
· The purpose of the Bill is to introduce the concept of traffic calming into statute.· Last year he successfully introduced the concept of market segmentation into a major corporate division.· To understand the debate we must introduce the concept of portfolio balance.· It is for this reason that we find concepts of such value and that I introduce here the concept of despair.· The monographs should: Introduce the concepts of clean technology to academic and industrial practitioners.· We have already introduced the concept of the manipulation of antecedents and consequences.· The film should reinforce existing knowledge and then introduce further topics, concepts and principles.· The intermediate form introduces a totally new concept, the named subcontractor.
· To understand the concept of mikva, it may be helpful to picture it.· Good understanding of most concepts up to and including algebra.· Anyone who has paddled in the shallow waters of the Arahura river will understand how such a concept arose.· Every researcher knows that a clear understanding of terms and concepts is necessary in order to communicate to other scientists and scholars.· This makes driving an ideal context in which to understand the concept of subjective risk and explore its relationship with memory.· S Department of Defense in the hopes of understanding better the concept of deception.· I think the really critical issue is to understand the concepts behind the particular forms of financing which are used.· Select an adviser who understands the self-victimisation concept and is far enough removed from the problem to be objective. 2.
· A fundamentally different analytical method is to use the concept of bibliographical coupling to construct clusters of co-citing journals.· You might be surprised how difficult it is to develop a generally accepted definition of this most widely used political concept.· The time has come to start using these concepts and arguments in relation to present-day urban sociology.· Box 3. 1 suggests how you might try to use the concepts and methods of micropolitical analysis to assess such questions.· To separate as far as possible the concepts of equity and efficiency, economists use the concept of Pareto efficiency.· This give-and-take using ideas provides emerging concepts with multiple experiential reference points.· It would be inefficient and uneconomical to avoid such terminology when it can be used to crystallise a concept.· Throughout the discussion every effort is made to show how the book uses these terms and concepts of social science.
WORD FAMILYnounconceptconceptualizationadjectiveconceptualverbconceptualizeadverbconceptually
an idea of how something is, or how something should be doneconcept of the concept of total patient care the concept of infinite spaceconcept that the concept that we are citizens of one world a new concept in business travel our basic concepts of decent human behaviour It’s very simple, once you grasp the concept.► see thesaurus at ideaCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesa new concept· Part of a teacher’s job is to introduce new concepts to students.a basic/fundamental concept· The children are taught the basic concepts of mathematics.a key/central/important concept· The title tells you something about the central concept of the poem.a difficult concept· Difficult concepts can sometimes be explained by diagrams or graphs.a simple concept· Cause and effect is a fairly simple concept.the whole concept of something· Some people reject the whole concept of evolution.a general/broad concept· The book begins with some general historical concepts.an abstract concept (=based on general ideas rather than on something that exists)· He finds it hard to grasp abstract concepts.a theoretical concept (=that exists only as a theory)· The theoretical concepts of psychology, for example Freud’s ideas, are also useful in the study of literature.a legal/mathematical/marketing etc concept· Democracy is a very important political concept.an alien concept (=an idea that is very strange or that does not exist)· In many countries, queuing for a bus is an alien concept.an ambiguous/vague concept (=one that is not clear or is hard to define)· Creativity is an ambiguous concept.verbshave a concept of something· Animals have no concept of their own mortality.understand a concept· The class will help you understand the basic concepts of physics.grasp a concept (=understand it)· Children often grasp new concepts more quickly than adults.introduce a concept· The first year of the course introduces the basic concepts of management.develop a concept· The Greeks developed the concept of a scientific theory.